Vivian Wu
Known for Acting
Born
February 5, 1966 (age 60)
Birthplace
Shanghai, China
Filmography
48 films, 38 shows
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TMDB3.1
Slanted
2026 · 1h 44m
country: United States
An insecure Chinese-American teenager undergoes experimental surgery to appear white, hoping to secure the prom queen title and peer acceptance.
TMDB3.0
Knock Out
2020 · 1h 59m
country: China
Zhou Si, who was so desperate in boxing, was sentenced to five years in prison for an accident. After his release, his wife died, leaving only his daughter Zhou Zi waiting for him. The young daughter was found to have leukemia, and Zhou Shi returned to the ring at the age of 36 to fulfill her daughter's wish. Even if the physical energy is exhausted, the head is bleeding, the vision is blurred, and the flesh and blood is splashed, it will continue to fight until the victory or defeat.
TMDB3.4
Dead Pigs
2018 · 2h 2m
country: China
A pig farmer, a busboy, a salon owner, an expat architect and a jaded rich girl cross paths as thousands of dead pigs float down the Yangtze River toward Shanghai.
TMDB3.6
The Chinese Widow
2017 · 1h 37m
country: China
It’s 1941 and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor has destroyed America’s morale. The US President Franklin D. Roosevelt then decides to risk it all by bombing Tokyo and raise more hope for his citizens. After completing its mission, a unit of the US Air Force is forced to make an emergency landing in China. Its commander Jack Turner (Emilie Hirsch) barely survives but gets rescued by Ying (Crystal Liu), a local widow who will stop at nothing to hide him from the Japanese occupant.
Yang and His Summer
2017
country: Unknown
TMDB2.6
Father and Son
2017
country: China
Despite already hitting 30, Fan Xiaobing has yet to accomplish anything of note in his 10 years of being an entrepreneur. To fund the development of his latest venture, he takes out a loan from a financial company in Macau. With no money to repay the debt after it fails, he’s left with no choice but to hold a fake funeral for his father to collect donations, setting off a chain of hilarious events.
TMDB2.6
The House That Never Dies II
2017 · 1h 37m
country: China
A cultural relic restorer discovers the skeletons of babies while working in an old mansion. The bloody events of the past drags everyone working on the project into a dark abyss.
Youth Dinner
2016 · 1h 35m
country: China
The triumphs and travails of six members of two single parent families in 19th century Yunnan.
TMDB2.9
Go Lala Go! 2
2015 · 1h 41m
country: China
To chase promotion or to chase marriage? Young career-woman Lala returns after five years as a recently engaged young woman, but faces challenges when third parties tries to break up her relationship.
TMDB2.3
The Queens
2015 · 1h 46m
country: China
Based on the novel of the same name, the film follows three cosmopolitan women, an actress, a PR specialist and a gallery manager, all wrestling with the ups and downs of their romantic lives.
TMDB3.0
Who Is Undercover
2014 · 1h 30m
country: Unknown
In 1934, agents of the Kuomintang government round up suspects and torture them to find out which one is an undercover communist spy.
TMDB3.6
Feed Me
2013 · 1h 31m
country: China
On an old barge moored close to a small village inhabited by old people and children, live young Wang Wang and his grandfather. The latter is immensely fond of the local doctor, Ms. Bei, who keeps prompting him to buy her a ring as proof of his good intentions. Wang Wang attends the local school, but, in the absence of maternal authority, with great reluctance. Then, one night, a young pregnant woman is discovered hiding on the boat, ready to give birth. With the arrival of her little baby girl, the young mother, already used to her river accommodations, opts to stay with them. Life on the barge is no longer the same. Wang Wang feels the stirring of adolescence and an Oedipal attraction to the young woman; the grandfather is diagnosed with dementia and and is warned that its first signs could soon manifest themselves; and the new young mother keeps a bag whose contents will later reveal a dark secret. Three people at a crossroads in their lives.
TMDB3.5
The Palace
2013 · 1h 55m
country: China
In Qing Dynasty, Chen Xiang and Liuli became maids and friends in the imperial palace. Liuli wanted to be famous whereas Chen Xiang just wanted to live a normal life. Liuli attempted to change her life by knowing the prince, even at the cost of betraying Chen Xiang.
Judge Zhan
2012 · 1h 35m
country: China
The film is a courtroom-themed, socially conscious drama based on the real-life story of Judge Zhan Hongli, head of the Juvenile Court at the Yanping District Court in Nanping, Fujian. It portrays her dedication to rehabilitating troubled youth and highlights the compassion, resilience, and professionalism of judges in the new era. Played by Wu Junmei, the character of Judge Zhan has worked in the judiciary for 27 years, over a decade of which was spent in juvenile justice. She presided over more than 500 juvenile criminal cases: without a single retrial, wrongful conviction, complaint, or appeal. Her work successfully guided over 1,100 young offenders toward a better path and helped repair more than 70 families on the brink of collapse.
TMDB0.5
To Forgive
2012 · 1h 34m
country: China
China, Jiangsu province, the present day. On 15 October, after depositing the funerary urn of his father, Professor Gu Daqing (Feng Dalu), who died of a sudden heart attack, Gu Jie (Calvin Yu) receives a phone call from a stranger telling him the urn has just been stolen and to "remember the 19th." After his car is hit by a lorry, Gu Jie wakes up on the 16th on the seashore of an island, where he finds a kidnapped girl tied up nearby. The girl's father, Jia Kuan (Li Hongquan), arrives and tells him to leave the island. In his pocket, Gu Jie finds a key to Room 327 of Shun Lai Hotel. After meeting a girl, Nana (Nancy Liu), who has a heart condition and whom his father once treated, Gu Jie goes to the decrepit hotel and checks into the room, where he finds an animal head in the bed and an old photo of a boy. "Welcome to the game," says the mysterious phone caller.
TMDB3.1
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
2011 · 1h 44m
country: China
A story set in 19th century China and centered on the lifelong friendship between two girls who develop their own secret code as a way to contend with the rigid cultural norms imposed on women.
TMDB1.0
Under the Influence
2011 · 1h 30m
country: China
TMDB4.0
To Whom It May Concern: Ka Shen's Journey
2010 · 1h 44m
country: United States
The definitive and true-life story of Nancy Kwan Ka-Shen, who as a young Eurasian girl from Hong Kong, captured the hearts and minds of cinemagoers around the world in her stunning motion picture debut in "The World Of Suzie Wong" (1960). Kwan's journey through life and the film industry is poignant, compelling and inspiring.
TMDB2.7
The Founding of a Republic
2009 · 2h 18m
country: China
The tale of one man who fought against the tyranny of a ruler and led his people in battle in the ultimate sacrifice for his country.
TMDB2.2
Desires of the Heart
2008 · 1h 55m
country: Hong Kong
Follows urban youngsters in their pursuit of true love and all the set backs and comedic mishaps along the way.
TMDB4.5
Shanghai Red
2007 · 1h 27m
country: Unknown
A murder mystery set in contemporary Shanghai about a beautiful woman caught in a web of vengeance and deceit.
TMDB3.9
Eve and the Fire Horse
2005 · 1h 32m
country: Canada
Eve is a precocious nine year-old girl with a wild imagination growing up in a traditional Chinese immigrant family in Vancouver where Confucian doctrines, superstitious obsessions and divine visions abound. When Buddhism and Catholicism are thrown into the mix, life for Eve and her 11-year-old prim and authoritative sister, Karena, escalates into a fantasia of catastrophe, sainthood and cultural confusion. The journey of a young girl and her sister striving to grow up in world where childhood is lonely and the world is full of wonder.
TMDB3.4
Chinaman
2005 · 1h 28m
country: Denmark
Keld is in a rut. His wife of 25 years has left him. For sustenance, he eats his way through the menu at the local Chinese takeaway. The owner talks him into a marriage of convenience with his sister from China and the unplanned-for happens. A delicate romance blossoms between these two damaged, fragile individuals, but a secret gives their relationship a fateful twist. A subtle and touching story of life's diversity.
TMDB3.6
The Beauty Remains
2005 · 1h 27m
country: China
Set in 1948 against the backdrop of Communism's rise, "Fei" is the story of two sisters--Fei and Ying--bound together by the will of their late father, a legendary business entrepreneur, and their shared love for a charismatic ex-boxer, Huang. They are two women whose paths have been dictated by the often cruel decrees of the men their lives--two women who must somehow transcend that influence...or lose everything.
TMDB2.6
Encrypt
2003 · 1h 41m
country: United States
2068, the ozone layer is gone and the world is a wasteland. A band of mercenaries attempt to break into a Estate that is guarded by a automated defence system called "Encrypt" in order to steal priceless artwork.
TMDB2.1
Red Skies
2002 · 1h 16m
country: United States
A young Chinese female cop comes to Southern California on a hunt for a high-profile criminal from mainland China.
TMDB3.5
Dinner Rush
2000 · 1h 39m
country: United States
One unlucky evening, Louis Cropa, a part-time bookmaker, discovers that his restaurant has become a hotbed of conflicting characters. In addition to having to please a whiny food critic, Louis must fend off a hostile takeover from a pair of gangsters, to whom his sous-chef is in debt. Further, Louis has an argument with his son, the star chef, whose culinary creativity has brought success to the business.
TMDB2.7
8 ½ Women
1999 · 2h 1m
country: Germany
After his wife dies, middle-aged businessman Philip Emmenthal, at the prompting of his playboy son Storey, populates his Geneva villa with eight-and-a-half concubines. Three are from Kyoto, where Storey manages Pachinco palaces. Each has a distinctive personality: a nun, a child bearer, a gambler, a student of Kabuki, a horsewoman with a pet pig, a maid. As a year passes, the women begin asserting their own power.
TMDB4.0
Blindness
1998 · 1h 28m
country: United States
A blind Asian-American woman lives with her son and daughter-in-law. The two women barely tolerate one another and the son, a doctor simply turns himself off to avoid any confrontation with either. Into this environment, an armed intruder breaks in. He is eventually revealed to be an old family friend who was sent to prison for murdering his father, but he insists that the older woman's husband, now deceased, was the actual murderer. Slowly, all the characters have to explore past hidden secrets about themselves.
TMDB2.9
A Bright Shining Lie
1998 · 1h 58m
country: United States
Something in his past keeps career Army man John Paul Vann from advancing past colonel. He views being sent to Vietnam as part of the US military advisory force a stepping stone to promotion. However, he disagrees vocally (and on the record) with the way the war is being run and is forced to leave the military. Returning to Vietnam as a civilian working with the Army, he comes to despise some South Vietnamese officers while he takes charge of some of the U.S. forces and continues his liaisons with Vietnamese women.
TMDB3.3
The Soong Sisters
1997 · 2h 25m
country: China
Ai-ling married a wealthy and powerful businessman. Ching-ling married Sun Yat-sen, the revolutionary founder of modern China. Mei-ling married Chiang Kai-shek, China's leader during World War II. The sisters captured the world's fascination for their brilliant marriages and their strong influence on their nation.
TMDB2.0
Roses Are Red
1996 · 1h 43m
country: China
An impulsive rendezvous with her American employer causes the break-up of Lin's marriage. Her husband, Li, leaves her for a stewardess, but when Lin's baby is born and it is clear that both parents are Chinese, Li grows to accept and love the child.
TMDB3.2
The Pillow Book
1995 · 2h 6m
country: France
Nagito has a fetish for calligraphy on the human body and meets her ideal soulmate Jerome, an English translator sent to Japan. However, once Nagiko's father's gay publisher rejoins the scene, the story is overtaken by treachery and bloodlust.
TMDB2.8
Vanishing Son IV
1994 · 1h 30m
country: United States
After the death of his brother Wago, Jian-Wa Chang now roams America's countryside while looking for his place in the world. He is hit by a van of two college students. Jian-Wa is taken in and nursed by Megan, a secluded artist. Jian-Wa is also visited by the ghost of Wago, who must act as an angel to Jian-Wa to gain acceptance into heaven. Meanwhile, the students from the hit-and-run plan to kill Jian-Wa so he doesn't talk to the police.
TMDB3.6
Vanishing Son III
1994 · 1h 30m
country: United States
The saga picks up in Washington, D.C., where Jian-Wa is competing in a classical music competition. Back in L.A., Jian-Wa's brother, Wago, is wanted by the F.B.I., which manages to pull Jian-Wa back to L.A. for questioning. They also want him to infiltrate his brother's gang, in order to save Wago. Can Jian-Wa get Wago to see the truth about things before it's too late?
TMDB3.6
Vanishing Son II
1994 · 1h 30m
country: United States
The continuing saga of the Chang brothers: Jian-Wa and Wago. Picking up where it left off, Jian-Wa has left L.A. after a gang fight that involved Wago. Jian-Wa travels to the south and finds that hatred comes in all forms, as a group of racist whites feud with harmless Vietnamese fishermen. Jian-Wa decides to side with the Vietnamese and help them defend themselves. Back in Los Angeles, Wago is enjoying his new life as a gangster.
TMDB3.1
Vanishing Son
1994 · 1h 30m
country: United States
Two students in the Peoples Republic of China are forced to flee out of China after having taken part in a protest action for freedom. They come to America, and try to build up a new life. After a while, one of the brothers pursues a musical career while the other gets entangled in a criminal organization.
TMDB3.3
Heaven & Earth
1993 · 2h 20m
country: France
In a small Vietnamese village torn apart by war, a young woman faces unimaginable horrors before deciding to escape to the city. There, she encounters a compassionate Marine who offers her hope and a chance at a new life, igniting the possibility of a future together.
TMDB2.6
Message from Nam
1993 · 2h 55m
country: Unknown
Journalism Major Paxton Andrews loses the man she loves in the Vietnam War. Always having followed the beat of a different drum, she decides to work out her grief by going to Vietnam and writing a column that will hopefully help those at home better understand the War.
TMDB3.5
The Joy Luck Club
1993 · 2h 19m
country: United States
Through a series of flashbacks, four Chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China explore their pasts.
TMDB2.8
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III
1993 · 1h 35m
country: United States
The four turtles travel back in time to the days of the legendary and deadly samurai in ancient Japan, where they train to perfect the art of becoming one. The turtles also assist a small village in an uprising.
TMDB2.8
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The Guyver
1991 · 1h 32m
country: United States
FBI agent Max Reed witnesses Dr. Tetsu Segawa - a researcher for the mysterious Chronos Corporation - being murdered. Dr. Segawa had stolen an alien device known as "The Guyver" from Chronos. College student Sean Barker, whose girlfriend's father was Dr. Segawa, finds the Guyver's hiding spot while watching the forensic team investigating the crime scene.
TMDB3.1
Iron and Silk
1991 · 1h 32m
country: Japan
Iron and Silk is a 1990 movie based on the eponymous book by American writer Mark Salzman. It details his journey to China after college to study Chinese wu shu, better known in the west as kung fu, and to teach English. Though not trained as an actor, Salzman starred as himself, as did Pan Qingfu, who claimed no one else could portray him on film. Salzman's experiences occurred in Changsha, Hunan, though the film was shot in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. (Wikipedia)
TMDB3.8
Shadow of China
1990 · 2h 11m
country: Japan
A Chinese immigrant tries to make his way to the top as a businessman in Hong Kong while his former radicalism is transformed into cynicism.
TMDB3.8
The Last Emperor
1987 · 2h 43m
country: China
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic.
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A Border-Crossing Operation
1986 · 1h 30m
country: China
The international terrorist organization Black Storm wants to assassinate a foreign general when he visits Beijing.
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Spring in Autumn
1985 · 2h 2m
country: China
Zhou's husband died in the Cultural Revolution. She lived arduously with her only son. Lo, a kind postman, helped her during her hardest time.
TMDB3.5
Forever Young
1983 · 1h 34m
country: China
Girls at a Beijing High School in 1952 have dreams for China.